“Messiah” and “Christ” are exactly equivalent terms; that they mean, in themselves, no more than anointed. This word, though, has come to have a special application to that personage upon whom the counsels of God as unfolded in the Scriptures converge. Really the Messianic question, when we come to look at it closely, resolves itself into several questions. First of all, is it correct to say that there is any Messianic question? In other words, do the Scriptures contain a doctrine of the Messiah?